Hello guys I have a Problem.
The Problem I am having at the moment, is that the role to copy the files will skip all the files no matter if the file with the filenames is empty or not.
In Role1 I want to save the output of cat for each file. In Role2 in the when conditional, I want the task to skip if the registered output is == "".
Role1:
---
- name: copy files
shell: "cat path{{ item }}files"
register: checkempty
loop:
- test1
- test2
- test3
- test4
Role2:
---
- name: Copy Files
copy:
src: "{{ var1 }}{{ var2 }}{{ var3 }}{{ var4 }}{{ item }}/"
dest: "{{ copy_dest_sys }}" #destination path
loop: "{{ lookup('file', 'pathtofile/file').split('\n')}}"
when: hostvars['localhost'].checkempty.results == ""
Playbook:
- name: check emptiness
hosts: localhost
become: yes
vars_files:
- ../variables/varsfile
roles:
- ../variables/role1
- name: Copy Files to prod/stag
hosts: "{{hosts_exec}}"
become: yes
vars_files:
- ../vars/recommendation-delta.yml
roles:
- ../roles/role2
How can I set a registered variable with with_items and compare the output of it to ""(nothing)? Can somebody help me with this issue?